{"id":41780,"date":"2019-05-02T15:06:04","date_gmt":"2019-05-02T14:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/afro-caribbean-band-ife-is-back-with-new-single-voodoo-economics\/"},"modified":"2020-05-10T21:54:51","modified_gmt":"2020-05-10T20:54:51","slug":"afro-caribbean-band-ife-is-back-with-new-single-voodoo-economics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/afro-caribbean-band-ife-is-back-with-new-single-voodoo-economics\/","title":{"rendered":"Afro-Caribbean band \u00ccF\u00c9 is back with new single &#8216;Voodoo Economics&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"deck pam-featured-content\" ><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-24605 pam-featured-content\"  src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Webp.net-compress-image-7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1140\" height=\"760\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Webp.net-compress-image-7.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Webp.net-compress-image-7-759x506.jpg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Webp.net-compress-image-7-1010x673.jpg 1010w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Webp.net-compress-image-7-661x441.jpg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Webp.net-compress-image-7-465x310.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Webp.net-compress-image-7-375x250.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"deck\">Off their forthcoming\u00a0second\u00a0album, following the critically acclaimed <em>IIII+IIII<\/em> released in 2017.<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>Photography by\u00a0Miguel Figueroa\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00ccF\u00c9 is a Puerto Rico-based band that was founded by <span style=\"color: #333333;\"><a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/ife-post-rumba-otura-mun-interview\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Otura Mun<\/a>,<\/span> an If\u00e1 priest or \u2018Babalawo\u2019 in the Yoruba religion, mixing Cuban rumba, electronic sounds and Yoruba traditional music.<\/p>\n<p>The beauty of \u00ccF\u00c9\u2019s music lies in the details. The groove is based on a traditional Afro-Cuban rumba rhythmic pattern, blended with Jamaican dancehall rhythm signature, thus creating a unique and subtle sound.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6MPMi0S_000\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This new song, &#8220;Voodoo Economics&#8221;, is a lament for Adolf Wolfgang Siemon-Otero, a beloved friend and musician gunned down in the streets of San Juan Puerto Rico, the target of a drug trafficking dispute.\u00a0 Singing in English, Spanish, and Yoruba, Otura&#8217;s honoring those that have fallen while questioning society&#8217;s\u00a0obsession with being rich at all cost without meaning. One of their\u00a0best songs to date that &#8220;House Of Love&#8221; inspired.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">&#8220;Voodoo Economics&#8221; is second single following &#8220;The Tearer,&#8221; extract of \u00ccF\u00c9 &#8216;s new album that will be out this year. Listen to it in our <a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/user\/panafricanmusic\/playlist\/5Au5WzqKtuYMaqK1zT88Qv?si=8xMvfkEATXCclC5tlrNM3w\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Noir Wave Spotify<\/a> playlist here. The single is available <a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/idol.lnk.to\/VOODOO_ECONOMICS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h5>Read next :\u00a0<a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/ife-post-rumba-otura-mun-interview\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00ccF\u00c9: post-rumba from Puerto Rico on a spiritual level<\/a><\/h5>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-24606\" src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Webp.net-compress-image-8.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Webp.net-compress-image-8.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Webp.net-compress-image-8-759x1139.jpg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Webp.net-compress-image-8-661x992.jpg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Webp.net-compress-image-8-465x698.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Webp.net-compress-image-8-375x563.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Off their forthcoming\u00a0second\u00a0album, following the critically acclaimed IIII+IIII released in 2017. Photography by\u00a0Miguel Figueroa\u00a0 \u00ccF\u00c9 is a Puerto Rico-based band that was founded by Otura Mun, an If\u00e1 priest or \u2018Babalawo\u2019 in the Yoruba religion, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":24605,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3944],"tags":[4098,4794,5482],"location":[8210],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41780"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41780"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=41780"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=41780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}